“You can't guide someone into adulthood. The experiences are unique to each person. Deanna Troi” — Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team Copy Share Image
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The only time a lady should be in a hospital because of a man is because of giving birth, not because of… — Ong Lor Copy Share Image
Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door. — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood! — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except… — Joan Walton Collaso Copy Share Image
Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
I was well into adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay. It took years of… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
“A man has two primary drives in early adulthood: one toward power, success, and accomplishment; the other toward love, companionship, and sex.” — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance.… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking,… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“On occasion, it occurs to adults that they are allowed to do all the things that being a child prevented them from… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
